The Falla Festival is the original Burning Man

Every neighborhood in Valencia spends the entire year building a Falla sculpture. The sculptures are humorous takes on whatever interests the neighborhood that year. Valencia has about 750 of these neighborhood falla groups.

Falla Festival partygoers in traditional dress.

After four days of partying in traditional dress, and eating lots of paella, the Falles are burnt in huge bonfires on March 19.